Why can't I stop my dreams from using the towns that I grew up in as backdrops?
I really hate those crappy little towns. I don't go there. I don't live there. My childhood family has all passed away. I have no desire to be there at all. My real life is now a happy dream and yet when I go to sleep and dream, it's those places that I go, off to that land of **** to be the kind of unhappy that I once was. WTF?
3 Answers to "Why can't I stop my dreams from using the towns that I grew up in as backdrops?"
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For a couple of years I had what I call "existentialist nightmares". For example, being a woodworker I had a recurring nightmare that I cut my hand off on a table saw and the dream would always shock me awake instantly. Eventually I experimented with lucid dreaming. I just repeated to myself over and over again as I fell asleep, "finish the dream".
In the case of the tablesaw nightmare before I could wake up fully I went back to finish the dream. I ran around the room cussing for a few seconds, picked up my hand, and went to find help. Once I finished the dream it never recurred.
We all have unfinished business in life and sometimes we just need to reassure ourselves it really is over and time to move on.Like (2)
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Great idea! Perhaps I could try to spend some time in a lucid state building new dreamscapes to visit. I could derive them from some of the newer more favorable places that I've been to.
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I'd start by trying to resolve the dreams you are already having. Perhaps saying your goodbyes and leaving town.
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Maybe your subconscious it trying to get you to go back there to deal with something you haven't dealt with. Dreaming is a way for your brain to work through your problems in your sleep and If it is something you having yet dealt with then your mind may keep going back till you do.
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I thought of that. If only it were that simple. But I have examined that over and over and all I could possibly do there ever again has already been done.
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Posted by Jasmiine Jul 11th, 2012 at 12:49AM
think of something postive or something you would like to dream about before you got to sleep, usually when you have something on your mind youll most likely have a dream about it.
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